Which theatre have you spent the most time in?

I'm another spreadsheeter. I try not to look at the cost column, but it is there. I love a spreadsheet though - I have a running one for books and for my nail varnish (I have a nail blog, and 499 nail varnishes - I was going to write 'around 500 nail varnishes' but who am I kidding? I know to the exact number how many I have!)

That's what I did when I probably should have been doing something more productive, there are still a few ellusive empty seat slots where the tickets have got hidden in a programme somewhere. My spreadsheet fights against me thought, it frequently seems to delete just the section where I note what I thought (it's some vague attempt to remember more than just the title of a show) and is the one column that relies on memory. I don't have a price column, that way I can live in denial.

Outside of the National I think it's the Globe and the Donmar, it's chasing those cheaper seats and avoiding adding the tube to my costs.

The most, I think, are Apollo Victoria (15 Times for Wicked) and Adelphi (14 Times for The Bodyguard Made in Dagenham and Kinky Boots).

Never included ticket price... WAY too scary!    

And to add to the spreadsheet topic, I have one, but it is simply: show/genre/theatre... and then an additional column for amount of times seen if I have returned a second, third or fiftieth time!

Also there is an additional column for if I have attended a significant performance at said show: so for Wicked the column has Louise and Gina's final performance, Rachel's return performance, 10th Anniversary performance etc.

I also have two additional spreadsheets for shows I want to see and shows I want to see again, with the dates of any booking period or closing dates which change as the booking period extends. In the case of the return spreadsheet there is also a reason to return box. So sometimes it is just because I want to see the show again or it is closing soon, but somwtimes it will be a reminder to go before a certain cast member leaves or something!

I don't know if i am organised or sad.

A "canary" ...now thats serious!

I have thought about a spreadsheet, particularly since my main interest is Opera which means I've seen 5 or more productions of some of the warhorses and it would be good to be reminded. Also to add comments and track the careers of singers and see when I first noticed star quality. I found the program of my first Trovatore and it featured Carreras and Ricarrelli just as they were becoming famous. They made little impression on me from a note I found with it! (PS It’s an Opera I don’t really like.) I have this in mind as a retirement project as I have most of the Opera Programmes (300+) from over the years and many, many Theatre ones.

So based on some work I did when I had a tidy up a few years ago.

ROH 180+ times
Colosseum 60+
Then a big fall off to the most visited (guestimates)
Regents Park Open Air. 10+ times
Savoy 10+ times
The old Players Theatre, under the arches 10+ times
Kings Head Islington 10+ times.
The Hackney Empire 20+ but not just for shows.
National Theatre – various visits over the years. More than 10.
Most of the west end theatres several times and with 4 visits to the Edinburgh Festival some venues there seem like a home from home.

Shows seen most- without checking, a tie.
Pal Joey at the Albery (now renamed The Noel Coward) with Dennis Lawson and Sian Phillips. This was the show that really started it for me. Summer of 1981 we had lots pf people come and stay with the family and I insisted they all come and see this amazing show. They were all very polite and said they loved it. Went 5x.

Since then I’ve probably seen at least 5 revivals of the Jonathon Millar Rigoletto but with different casts. If I include all productions of Rigoletto I have probably seen it more than 10x and Traviata even more than that.

Other Musicals. Off the top of my head I can recall 4 different productions of Guys and Dolls including the original and the revival of the NT version, so that also gets at least 5.

I’ve enjoyed this reminisce and it comes with being OLD, now if only I could remember them all.

I feel like I spent the best years of my life at the Old Vic watching Lear last week 

Easy one. Certainly The National.

Yet another spreadsheet person here, mine informs me that my most visited theatre is the Bristol Hippodrome. Makes lots of sense since I saw lots of different productions there when I was at university.

My spreadsheet seems to be pretty standard it consists of theatre, seat, production, day, time, date, cost. I've very slowly started going through all my programmes and am making a new spreadsheet which includes cast and character columns but I've only done about 50 performances so far. I've also got a private wordpress site where eventually I'll have a scan of the programme cover, date and show listed. Then clicking the cover takes you to a page with all the info from both spreadsheets except for cost but also including creatives. Looks like this: postimg.org/image/d6522notr postimg.org/image/bb3r1o00t/

The National.

Have seen 95% of productions there over the last 3 years with the only ones missed done so by choice except for one.